Recognition and rewards · RankedHeyTaco
HeyTaco is an employee recognition tool that works inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, where teammates show appreciation for one another in everyday chat · heytaco.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“6. HeyTaco - makes peer recognition a daily habit, with a starting price of $3/person/month”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“HeyTaco (Simplicity & Low Cost)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HeyTaco, over the 24 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 13 | View → | |
| 18 | 8 | View → | |
| 18 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 4 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on HeyTaco's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Remote and hybrid teams, startups and mid-size companies with 5-500+ employees, and teams already using Slack or Microsoft Teams
- Price stated
- $3-$5 per user per month
- Starting price
- $3 per user/month
- Free plan or trial
- 30-day free trial with no credit card required
- Integrations
- 2
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, SOC 1, PCI DSS, FISMA, SOX
- Customers named
- Deputy, Outbound Sales Pro & Parakeet, Haze Shift, #paid, Immunefi, Acadia, Derrevere Stevens Black & Cozad, BSC Analytics
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 23 of the 24 answers that named HeyTaco and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-seven of the 100 domain citations in answers naming HeyTaco came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 198 | 18 | 2026-09-28 | Employee onboarding, Recognition and rewards | |
| Comparison | 33 | 7 | 2026-09-08 | ||
| Case study | 18 | 1 | 2026-07-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 3 | 2026-08-24 | Employee onboarding | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | 0 | 2026-04-02 | ||
| Podcast or video | 6 | 5 | 2026-09-08 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2025-09-19 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 0 | 2025-04-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Ways to improve employee productivity blog
- 2026-09-24Reward what peer recognition misses meet quests blog
- 2026-09-24Low cost async team building ideas blog
- 2026-09-23Is your recognition culture actually working here s how to tell blog
- 2026-09-22Remote work isolation blog
- 2026-09-2245 employee appreciation ideas sorted by effort blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page heytaco.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.